Outline and discuss all the pros and cons which involve clear-cutting and selective cutting of forests.
Discuss fire management, prescribed burns, and human activity.
Separate residential land use into suburban and exurban classes.
Outline and discuss the definitions of each, how they come about, what is meant by urban sprawl, cluster housing, and office parks. The effects of feeder roads and parking lots and big box stores on the environment.
Discuss the environmental impact of urban sprawl due to increase aut use, larger houses, and loss of biodiversity.

Discuss how management of public land varies according to the land use.
Discuss land "ethics"
Define grassland, and discuss how the grazing of livestock can help maintain the grassland.
Discuss how overgrazing can affect the common land, and the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Indicate how this law changes rangeland from a commons to a permit based system, along with a host of cons which go along with the permit system.

LIst and discuss the six classifications of public lands based on their use. These include National parks, Manafed resource protected area, habitat managed areas, national wilderness areas, protected landscape and seascape areas, and national forests.
For each area, list some commonly known examples.

Outline the beneficial uses to humans of land.
List and discuss in detail some of the negative consequences of land use, along with how and why human activity is involved.
Discuss the "tragedy of the commons." outline the steps from proper use and populations to overgrazing, degredation, and lack of nutrients.
Indicate how this also applies to air and water as well as land.

List 3 factors upon which water availability depends.
Examine the role government plays in regulating water ownership.
Discuss how claims were settled in the past.
Examine how fair market price of water will be used to determine value and price.
List and discusss methods and ways to consume water use.

List and discuss the 3 main industrial uses for water consumption.
Discuss the methods of use and return versus use and consumption
List and discuss household use for water among developed and developing nations, as well as reasons for varying use within the USA.
View the pie chart which breaks down household water use, and discuss conservation methods which can be put in use.

Define and discuss what is meant by the "water footprint."
List the activities which reflect the water footprint of a country.
From the textbook, calculate the water footprint of the country listed.
Indicate that of all the possible users of water, agriculture is the largest uses, about 1/2 of the available fresh water.
List and discuss irrigation practices, along with each ones % of efficiency.
Discuss hydroponic agriculture as a method of water conservation for agriculture, both the pros and cons.

Define and discuss levees, dikes, and dams. Outline how each will effect the floodplain and the deposition of sediment and nutrients.
Illustrate how dams are built to restrict the flow if streams and rivers.
View photos of the world's largest dams and discuss the advantages and environmental problems caused by dams.
Outline reasons for the placement of dams.
Discuss fish ladders to alleviate the problem of fish not being able to migrate and spawn.
Present the history of aqueducts and how and why they are used today. Stress their importance in supplying water to places like N.Y. and L.A.
Discuss how human activities alter the growth and development of many rare species which would be located along river banks and lakes had it not been for interference.

View microscopic growth of yeast population.
Discuss the availability of water using the following:
Groundwater can be extracted for human use and the percentage of fresh water.
Define and view the different types of aquifers, the water table, groundwater recharge, a spring and an artesian well.
Discuss old water and new water aquifers and why the new water is prone to toxins,

Discuss how population and resource use impact the Earth.
Utilize graphs showing population size of many developed and developing countries. From graph of economic development and population varies between developed and developing countries.
Analyze the per capita ecological footprint, and how it can be a measure of the affect of affluence.
Write the IPAT equation, define each input, and how it is a conceptual formula.
Discuss GDP and the impact of affluence on the environment